Bradley Manning Prepares to Be Sentenced

(CNN) — A military judge plans to announce Wednesday morning what sentence she’ll give Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army intelligence analyst who stands convicted of what prosecutors believe was the biggest leak of classified materials in Army history.

The judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, noted Manning has 1,293 days — or 3 1/2 years — of detention credit to consider. Manning’s defense attorney has said his client deserves additional consideration for the harsh conditions he suffered during part of that detention.

Lind said she intends to announce a sentence at 10 a.m. ET Wednesday.

Prosecutors have said Manning acted as a “determined insider” in leaking classified information about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and should be locked up for at least 60 years.

Manning’s lawyer contends he can be rehabilitated and should not “rot in jail.”

“There may not be a soldier in the history of the Army who displayed such an extreme disregard” for his mission, Capt. Joe Morrow, the prosecutor, said Monday.

Manning’s arrogance, Morrow said, meant that he “felt he alone was knowledgeable and intelligent enough to determine what information was to be classified.”